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Global Linux Software Market Covering Prime Factors and Competitive Outlook ti  Business-newsupdate.com

With the start of the new month comes the Steam Survey figures out of Valve for the month prior. For January 2021 there is an increase in the Linux gaming percentage as it gets back to flirting with the 1% mark...

Steam Linux Use Ticks Back Just Under 1% For Starting 2021  Phoronix

Linux sudo exploit gives root access  ACS

AlmaLinux, the CentOS Linux replacement, beta is out  ZDNet

Microsoft's Extensible Storage Engine that has been in use for more than a quarter century and present since Windows NT 3.51 and Microsoft Exchange 4.0 is now open-source...

Report: UK Firm Says HPC Clusters under Attack: 'Level of Sophistication Rarely Seen in Linux Malware'  insideHPC

Report: Security Firm Says HPC Clusters under Attack: 'Level of Sophistication Rarely Seen in Linux Malware'  insideHPC

OpenZFS 2.0.2 is out today as the latest version of this open-source ZFS file-system implementation currently supported on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

AMD vs Nvidia: Which Is More Popular Among Linux Users?  Tom's Hardware

Canonical has been working on developing a new desktop installer built around Google's Flutter toolkit and they aim to introduce it later this year in Ubuntu 21.10...

The GNU C Library 2.33 release is out today as expected. Exciting with this libc update is HWCAPS in making it easier to load optimized libraries for modern CPUs...

CloudLinux Releases AlmaLinux Beta  Business Wire

Linux Operating System Market to Enjoy 'Explosive Growth' by 2025 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

evince/document viewer in presentation mode - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

JingOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distro designed for tablets (and maybe phones)  Liliputing

JingOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distro designed for tablets (and maybe phones)  Liliputing

GNOME XWayland Radeon Gaming Performance Is In Good Shape For Ubuntu 21.04  Phoronix

With Ubuntu 21.04 planning to use Wayland by default with GNOME aside from when running on NVIDIA graphics, you may be wondering about the current performance delta between running GNOME Shell on the X.Org session for Linux gaming versus its quite solid Wayland support. Or, rather, in the case of most games still - piped through XWayland. Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland performance on Ubuntu with the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

What Is a Process in Linux?  MakeUseOf